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Databricks

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Databricks is a leading Data and AI company that provides a unified platform for data intelligence powered by generative AI. With over 10,000 organizations, including a significant portion of the Fortune 500, relying on its services, Databricks helps businesses manage, analyze, and leverage their data effectively. Founded by the creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and offers solutions for data engineering, machine learning, and data governance.

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Databricks - Latest News and Updates

• Databricks now supports AWS instance profiles in its serverless compute, allowing secure access to Amazon S3 and external data without embedded credentials.
• Databricks software engineer Szehon Ho announced the addition of geospatial types to the Apache Iceberg v3 spec after nearly a year of collaborative effort.
• Databricks is partnering with SAP to integrate AI into business applications, marking their biggest partnership since Microsoft, and CEO Ali Ghodsi stated the company is IPO-ready but not in a rush.
• Databricks and Confluent are partnering to enhance AI with real-time data, as highlighted by Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and Confluent CEO Jay Kreps.
• Databricks has introduced enhanced streaming observability in Workflows and Delta Live Tables, allowing data engineers to optimize real-time data processing with new UI tools, metrics, and alerts for major streaming sources like Kafka and Kinesis.

• Baufest announced a strategic partnership with Databricks to enhance data-driven solutions and expand business opportunities in the region.
• Databricks implemented SQL with pipe syntax on January 30, 2025.
• AT&T used the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to develop a GenAI-based fraud detection proof of concept, reducing development time from seven days to one day.
• Databricks will host a webinar on February 25-26, 2025, featuring co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia, focusing on automating data engineering tasks with their Data Intelligence Platform.
• Myntra reduced data infrastructure costs by 35% and accelerated real-time pipelines by 25% using the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

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